The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-19
NEW WORKERS WITH BIG SALARIES
Some of Them Get as Much as the
President of the United States.

President of the United States.
NEW YORK, June 1S-The editor of one
of the great dailies took a novice into his
office one day
"You may go on the reportorial staff, he
said to him. 1T has been my experience
that money, women and choice foods make
capital newspaper stories. Whenever you
can get a story in which money plays an i'm
portant part you have an article that will be
read with interest"
So what follows is all about money and
the well-known New Workers whose nimble
fingers chase the elusive dollar, or rather
thousands of them, each year.
There are a score of men in New York
who are paid as much for their services each
year as the President of the United States.
Forty thousand dollars year is very tidy
salary. There are hundreds of men who get
81, 900 year salary, and the number who
get from $4,000 to $4,000 are legion.
Very ordinary men get from S., 600 to $1,000
a year, or as much as a Cabinet officer. DIR.
| Norvin Green, President of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, is paid $4,000.
SO is Chauncey M. Depew, President of the
New York Central railroad Richard M.
| McCurdy, President of the Mutual Life In
sursnce Company, gets a like amount.
John Hoey, President of Adams Express
Company, fares equally as well. President
Henry B. Hyde, of the Equitable Insurance
Company, is also i'll the list. George G.
| Williams President of the Chemical Ma
tiopal Bank, the richest banking institution
in America, with nearly So, 200, 600 of sur
plus, $50, 900 average deposits, is paid a
salary of 49,, 900 yearly. President Potts
of the Park Bank, and President Tappan
of the Gallatin National Bank, receive a
like sum each twelve months.
The best paid minister in New York is
DR.. John Hall, brainy man from the
North of Ireland, who breaches to $780,
100000 every Sunday. His is the smallest
church in town. He owes his rise in life to
Robert Bonner, of the Ledger, who found
him preaching to a small congregation in
Dublin and induced him to come to America.
He gets salary of $4,000 year, and
makes 900 by his newspaper and maya
| zine articles. de is given O luXuriously
furnished house as well. Dr. Morgan Dix,
the chief pastor of Trinity Church Corpora
ton, the wealthiest in America,
receives $4,000 yearly. DR.. Will
liam NJ. Lavler, of the Broadway
Tabernacle, gets the same amount He
does literary work and lecturing that brings
his income up to $4,000 Dr. Charles
Hall, of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
Church, is paid $4,000. He is very elo-
quent, and his church is crowded at all
services DR.. Parkhurst of Madison Square
Church, gets $12, 600 He has large and
distinguished congregation. Cyrus W. Field
is one of the pillars of the church DIR. Pax
ton, who breaches to Jay Gould and others
less wealthy, is paid $4,000. The Rev.
Robert Collyer, the blacksmith preacher, is
paid $4,000.
OF the editors Mr.. Stone of the Journal
of Commerce, is paid $4,000. He is Presi-
dent of the Associated Press, is immensely
wealthy, lives in Brooklyn, and has mania
for choice flowers and plants; his collection
| ic worth n1ynf GOS0 llA (NhoF.lac
editor of the sun, is paid $15, 900 salary, but
he is also large stakeholder in the paper,
| and his income from this source is quite
100000. Before the paper began to decline
the sum was nearly $500, 600 Whitelaw
Reid, chief owner of the Tribune, pays
himself $4,000 yearly. He has been very
l fortunate inSpeculating, and is said to be
worth over 81 100000. His wife, a daughter
of d. o. Mills, has fortune of half that
sum in her own name. DR.. George H. Hep
worth, who was at one time great pulpit
orator, now chief of the Herald staff, is
paid $4,000 yearly by James Gordon Ben
nett; Julius Chambers, the managing editor
of the paper, receives $4,000. Charles r.
Miller, the real editor of the New York
Times, gets $4,000 a year. He has sew
eral assistants in editorial writing who get
from $4,000 to $1,000. John c. Reid, the
managing editor of the paper, gets $4,000,
and Harold Frederic, the London CORE
SpOuu6nU, COl. JONI "A. COckerlll,
managing editor of the World, gets S15, 900
yearly. He also gets small share of the
profits of the paper, making in all $50, 600
yearly. George w. Turner, the publisher of
the same paper, makes $4,000 yearly.
George William Curtis is paid $40, 900 yearly
for editing HdTper's Weekly. He does not
do much work, and for days at time he
does not go near the Office. He lives in de-
lightful ease, in great, big, roomy house
on Staten Island. Novelist Howells is paid
$4,000 for his work on HdrperS Magazine
and Charles Dudley Warner just half the
sum for his humorous work on the same
monthly. Richard Watson Glider gets
1900 for editing the Century Magazine.
Of the physicians, DR.. Fordyce Barker
probably makes the largest income His
reputation as consulting physician stands
very high. He is said to make $4,000 to
100000 each year. Dr. A. l.. Loomis, a
specialist ON throat and lung troubles, makes
about $4,000 DR.. j. f. Metcalf makes
about the same amount. DR.. L.. A Sayre,
the great surgeon who mended John l.. Sui
livan's broken arm, makes $4,000. Dr. A.
jacob, who devotes himself entirely to the
diseases of children, makes $4,000 DIR.
G. K. Agnew, who makes the eye speciality,
clears S25, 900 yearly. DR.. George T. Shrady,
who attended Gen. Grant SO faithfully, has
an income of $4,000 DR.. Herman Knapp,
an eye specialist receives about $25, 600.
The legal profession is very remunerative.
Col. Bob Ingersoll and Roscoe Conkling are
both said to be making over S100, 900 a year.
Joseph II. Choate makes considerably over
that. So does Senator Evafts. There are
hundreds of lawyers who make from S25,-
600 to 10000 yearly. And the plumber who
make from $4,000 to $4,000 would fill a
column.
Jockey Mclaughlin, who rides for the
Dryers, is paid $4,000 He has the privi-
lege of outside mounts, which means Sc, 900
more. He gets in addition from 5000 to
$4,000 in gifts from owners of horses he
has ridden successfully. Jockey Isaac Muir
ply gets $4,000 and outside mounts. His
income is fully S25, 900 year
Five thousand dollars is not regarded as a
very big salary Quite a number Of
editors and at least dozen reporters on the
New York dailies make that amout, not
to speak of the clergymen, bank officials
and men in commercial houses who get as
much.
But talking about money!
John Z. Ritter, the assistant manager of
the Clearing House here, has probably seen
and handled more than any man in the
world. He has been more than twenty-five
years in the institution. All the money re-
ceived and paid out in balances passes
through his hands. The daily balances run
from s. 600 900 to 81 900 600 and i'm one